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Although the U.N. has stopped updating its Syria death toll, the number of civilians dying has not stopped. It has now exceeded 130,000, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (AFP/File)

Spokesman for the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Rupert Colville said that the organization would not be providing up-to-date figures based on the lack of U.N. access on the ground in Syria and its inability to verify "source material" from others, according to AP.

Colville told reporters Tuesday in Geneva that the Syrian death toll that the U.N. had estimted was the result of an exhaustive effort to verify a combination of six different figures supplied by a variety of Syria-focused sources and "for the time being we're not updating those figures," AP reported.